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Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti on Thursday proposed a pact with Libya to combat human trafficking during a visit to Tripoli to meet mayors of cities affected by the scourge.
"We will make a pact to liberate our lands from traffickers," Minniti told 13 mayors ...

Maltese lawmakers voted on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, fulfilling Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's campaign promise to make this the first law brought before parliament in his new term.
The law, which drew cross-party support, removes words including as ...

Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more time," the U.N. high commissioner for refugees said Monday.
Filippo Grandi, the chief of UNHCR, visited two refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the southeast coast where ...

French same-sex couples with children born to foreign surrogate mothers won a key victory Wednesday, with the country's highest appeals court ruling that the partner of the biological father could adopt his child.
Surrogacy, when a woman carries a child for a couple that cannot ...

Americans are celebrating their country's 241st birthday with big-time fireworks, small-town parades and the quirky spectacle of competitive hot dog eating.
Tuesday's festivities stretch from a baseball home run derby in London to a picnic at the White House to a Utah ski town where ...

A fire broke out in a Syrian refugee settlement in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley Sunday, killing at least one person and sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky, the state news agency and the Red Cross said.
Ahmed Salloum, a member of the local ...

Hundreds of residents from Rio de Janeiro's ultra-violent favelas descended on the posh Copacabana beach area Sunday to plead for an end to lethal shootouts between drug traffickers and police.
Against a backdrop of weekly, often daily shootings of innocent people in military-style police operations, ...

Italy's interior minister called Sunday on other European countries to open their ports to rescue ships ahead of talks with France and Germany on tackling the migrant crisis.
"We are under enormous pressure," Marco Minniti, who meets his counterparts in Paris later Sunday to prepare ...

Germany legalized same-sex marriage on Friday, joining many other Western democracies in granting gay couples full rights, including adoption.
The election-year bill was pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's leftist rivals, who pounced on a U-turn she made Monday — a maneuver that left many of ...

Somali teenager Abdulaziz Ahmad hunkered down in the sand dunes outside Calais, once again plotting how to reach Britain, eight months after French government bulldozers cleared a sprawling migrant camp in the northern port town.
Back in October, Ahmad, 17, was rehoused in a reception ...

Protests were held in cities across India on Wednesday against a wave of attacks on Muslims by mobs that accuse them of killing cows or eating beef.
The protests follow the stabbing death last week of a 16-year-old boy accused of possessing beef on a ...

Trapped in their homes in Raqqa and running out of supplies, Ahmad Shaabu, his family and their neighbors were increasingly desperate. It was the children who finally helped them to escape.
Shaabu was among some 20 civilians who managed this week to flee the northern ...